Physicians Should Screen Youth for Cyberbullying, Social Media Use
×ó°®ÊÓƵ physicians recommend primary care physicians screen adolescents and young adults for inappropriate or misuse of social media and cyberbullying using screening tools developed for health care settings.
Researchers Endorse Widespread Naloxone to Stop Drug Overdose Deaths
×ó°®ÊÓƵ Schmidt College of Medicine researchers propose a call to action to ensure the widest distribution and easy availability of naloxone, including over the counter, which is likely to be FDA-approved soon.
Interplay Between Sleep, Pain and Spinal Cord Stimulation
Researchers from the Schmidt College of Medicine have unraveled the interplay between chronic pain, sleep and spinal cord stimulation, a treatment that uses low levels of electricity to relieve pain.
×ó°®ÊÓƵ, Broward Health to Partner on Academic Medicine
×ó°®ÊÓƵ and Broward Health have announced a partnership to provide academic medicine to Broward County, and to collaborate on education, clinical training and practice, health services administration, and research.
Ultrasound Device for Pain Gets 'Nod' from Shark Tank and NIH Funding
×ó°®ÊÓƵ's Schmidt College of Medicine is developing a handheld probe using focused ultrasound that is non-invasive and non-opioid-based to treat back and leg pain in a physician's office and potentially at home.
Researchers Inducted into ×ó°®ÊÓƵ Chapter of National Academy of Inventors
Four ×ó°®ÊÓƵ researchers representing engineering, medicine, science and Harbor Branch will be inducted into the ×ó°®ÊÓƵ Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors®.
×ó°®ÊÓƵ Lands U.S. Department of Defense Grant for Powerful Imaging Tool
Researchers have received a $599,503 grant from the United States Department of Defense for a powerful high resolution imaging technique that can reveal nanoscale structures.
Needs, Challenges for COVID-19 Boosters and Other Vaccines in the U.S.
×ó°®ÊÓƵ Schmidt College of Medicine researchers have published a commentary in "The American Journal of Medicine" to provide the most updated guidance to health care providers on boosters and vaccines.
Study Shows Increasing Firearm Deaths Among Texas School-age Children
×ó°®ÊÓƵ's Schmidt College of Medicine and collaborators investigated firearm-related deaths in Texas from 1999 to 2020 and found 4,090 firearm fatalities among school-age children 5 to 18 years.
×ó°®ÊÓƵ Receives $500,000 NIH Grant to Tackle Chronic Disease Disparities
With a $500,000 NIH grant, ×ó°®ÊÓƵ researchers and collaborators will tackle chronic health disparities using electronic health records, artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things.